Re: apt-get dist-upgrade and cron

[amacater@galactic.demon.co.uk (Andrew M.A. Cater)]

On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 07:04:05PM -0400, Robert Wolfe wrote:
> Hi folks.  One question (which will really be my first question in the
> mailing list).  I would like to run the following as a nightly cron job (in
> script format):
> 
> apt-get update
> apt-get dist-upgrade
> 
> What would I need to do to get this to work?  Mainly, how do I get the cron
> job to run as root?
> --
> Robert Wolfe, MCP
> robert@wolfe.mine.nu
> 
As root:

crontab -e

then add something like the following

15 00 * * * apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade

man 5 crontab 

(for more details (and to check the syntax :) )

The line above would execute the command at 00.15 every (day of
month)(month)(day of week) or thereabouts.

HTH,

Andy


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